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6 perl5381delta - what is new for perl v5.38.1
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9 This document describes differences between the 5.38.0 release and the
10 5.38.1 release.
11 If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.37.0, first read
13 perl5380delta, which describes differences between 5.37.0 and 5.38.0.
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16 This release fixes the following security issues.
17 CVE-2023-47038 - Write past buffer end via illegal user-defined Unicode
19 property
20 This vulnerability was reported directly to the Perl security team by
21 Nathan Mills "the.true.nathan.mills@gmail.com".
22 A crafted regular expression when compiled by perl 5.30.0 through
24 5.38.0 can cause a one-byte attacker controlled buffer overflow in a
25 heap allocated buffer.
26 CVE-2023-47039 - Perl for Windows binary hijacking vulnerability
28 This vulnerability was reported to the Intel Product Security Incident
29 Response Team (PSIRT) by GitHub user ycdxsb
30 <https://github.com/ycdxsb/WindowsPrivilegeEscalation>. PSIRT then
31 reported it to the Perl security team.
32 Perl for Windows relies on the system path environment variable to find
34 the shell ("cmd.exe"). When running an executable which uses Windows
35 Perl interpreter, Perl attempts to find and execute "cmd.exe" within
36 the operating system. However, due to path search order issues, Perl
37 initially looks for cmd.exe in the current working directory.
38 An attacker with limited privileges can exploit this behavior by
40 placing "cmd.exe" in locations with weak permissions, such as
41 "C:\ProgramData". By doing so, when an administrator attempts to use
42 this executable from these compromised locations, arbitrary code can be
43 executed.
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46 Perl 5.38.1 represents approximately 5 months of development since Perl
47 5.38.0 and contains approximately 6,100 lines of changes across 34
48 files from 4 authors.
49 Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there
51 were approximately 1,300 lines of changes to 9 .pm, .t, .c and .h
52 files.
53 Perl continues to flourish into its fourth decade thanks to a vibrant
55 community of users and developers. The following people are known to
56 have contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.38.1:
57 Karl Williamson, Paul Evans, Steve Hay, Tony Cook.
59 The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically
61 generated from version control history. In particular, it does not
62 include the names of the (very much appreciated) contributors who
63 reported issues to the Perl bug tracker.
64 Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN
66 modules included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN
67 community for helping Perl to flourish.
68 For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors,
70 please see the AUTHORS file in the Perl source distribution.
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73 If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the perl bug
74 database at <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>. There may also be
75 information at <http://www.perl.org/>, the Perl Home Page.
76 If you believe you have an unreported bug, please open an issue at
78 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>. Be sure to trim your bug down
79 to a tiny but sufficient test case.
80 If the bug you are reporting has security implications which make it
82 inappropriate to send to a public issue tracker, then see "SECURITY
83 VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION" in perlsec for details of how to
84 report the issue.
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87 If you wish to thank the Perl 5 Porters for the work we had done in
88 Perl 5, you can do so by running the "perlthanks" program:
89 perlthanks
91 This will send an email to the Perl 5 Porters list with your show of
93 thanks.
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96 The Changes file for an explanation of how to view exhaustive details
97 on what changed.
98 The INSTALL file for how to build Perl.
100 The README file for general stuff.
102 The Artistic and Copying files for copyright information.
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